Author Archives: GilPress

About GilPress

I'm Managing Partner at gPress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy. Also a Senior Contributor forbes.com/sites/gilpress/. Previously, I held senior marketing and research management positions at NORC, DEC and EMC. Most recently, I was Senior Director, Thought Leadership Marketing at EMC, where I launched the Big Data conversation with the “How Much Information?” study (2000 with UC Berkeley) and the Digital Universe study (2007 with IDC). Twitter: @GilPress

Aging and Automation

Posted on December 15, 2019 by GilPress

The “under-appreciated” workforce — experienced workers with long tenures at their companies, aged 50 and above — are estimated to have contributed $7.6 trillion to U.S. economic activity in 2015, set to jump to over $13.5 trillion by 2032, according … Continue reading →

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Extra! Extra! 42 Additional 2020 Cybersecurity Predictions

Posted on December 13, 2019 by GilPress

From disrupting elections to targeted ransomware to privacy regulations to deepfakes and malevolent AI, 141 cybersecurity predictions for 2020 did not exhaust the subject so here are additional 42 from senior cybersecurity executives. Read more here

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Robot Augmentation

Posted on December 12, 2019 by GilPress

You may have heard “AI” explained as “augmented intelligence,” i.e.., robots supporting or enhancing human intelligence. Now, researchers at Amazon are experimenting with robot augmentation: “…researchers at Amazon’s Alexa AI division developed a framework that endows agents with the ability … Continue reading →

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The Accelerating Complexity of AI Models

Posted on December 8, 2019 by GilPress

“The number of parameters in a neural network model is actually increasing on the order of 10x year on year. This is an exponential that I’ve never seen before and it’s something that is incredibly fast and outpaces basically every … Continue reading →

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The Digital Transformation of Recorded Music

Posted on December 5, 2019 by GilPress

Find more statistics at Statista Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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Cybersecurity 2020 Predictions

Posted on December 4, 2019 by GilPress

Read more here Serial cybersecurity entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer said in a 2005 interview that cybersecurity is “a bit like Alice in Wonderland” where you run as fast as you can only to stay in place. In 2020, to paraphrase the … Continue reading →

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Translating Between Computer Science and Statistics

Posted on December 1, 2019 by GilPress

Terence Parr: “I am a computer scientist retooling as a machine learning droid and have found the nomenclature used by statisticians to be peculiar to say the least, so I thought I’d put this document together. It’s meant as good-natured … Continue reading →

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Global Distribution of AI Startups

Posted on November 29, 2019 by GilPress

Source: Asgard

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Apple Pay to Become the Most Popular Digital Wallet Worldwide in 2020 with 227 Million Users

Posted on November 28, 2019 by GilPress

You will find more infographics at Statista The global number of digital wallet users could double by 2020, according to Juniper Research

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The Internet of Things (IoT) by the Numbers

Posted on November 20, 2019 by GilPress

IDC estimates that there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices, or “things,” generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data in 2025. Gartner forecasts that the enterprise and automotive IoT market will grow to 5.8 billion endpoints in 2020, a 21% … Continue reading →

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